Tourist hotspots have ramped up efforts to curb rowdy behaviour by hiking fines for drinking in the street, banning shops from selling alcohol at night and restricting party boats.
Brits have told MailOnline their holidays were being 'wrecked' by the crackdownPartying Brits have waged war on Spain 's Balearic Islands by vowing to defy a crackdown on booze-fuelled holidays - as they accused the government of 'killing' popular resorts.
Shops selling alcohol in areas of 'excessive tourism' must now completely close between 9.30pm and 8am, rather than simply stop selling booze between these hours. Daniel Vella said: 'Magaluf is for a good time. If you are coming to a place for a party, you should be able to party'. His friend Bradley Shetland-Carter said: 'We are English, we are British, we drink a lot.'
His friend Bradley Shetland-Carter, also 24, said: 'We are English, we are British, we drink a lot. If you are banning drinks at 9.30pm, we need more alcohol. We come here to get drunk and drink all day… f*** the rules.' As the tougher rules came into force last night, fuming Brits drinking in bars and walking along the Magaluf strip told MailOnline that their holidays were being 'wrecked' by the crackdown
At the appropriately named Three Lions Bar, where Brits sat drinking in England football shirts, one waitress said: 'Magaluf has to be a party place, it has to be.' Oliver Hasler-Cregg, 24, from Accrington, was sat having a drink with his girlfriend along the beachfront when he spoke to MailOnline Most shops along the strip no longer sell alcohol because they want to stay open longer. In fact shop owner Saqi Aslam, 35, said the nearest shop to buy alcohol was over a 10-minute walk away from the strip now.
He added: 'It's still people's home as well so you still have to be respectful that people live here but other than that it is the party place so you have got that side of it as well, that's what people come here for.' Cameron Smith, 24, from Birmingham, said he had been coming to Magaluf for several years. He said: 'I think Magaluf is trying to change its identity. Magaluf has always had the reputation of being a loose place because the drinks are so cheap and you get all-inclusive holidays.
Jack Richards, 22, who was on holiday from Gloucester, said that the ban could be detrimental to Majorca's tourism industry He said: 'It's difficult. Magaluf is known as the party place and you expect to get battered, have loads of drink go back to hotel same again next day, chill on the beach. It's harsh in the sense of that's what it's come to.
The new rules include a ban on drink parties in public places, graffiti, scooters, and even nudism and semi-nudism. Pictured: Revellers in Majorca Conor and Jess, from Newcastle, said that they feel that the people will find a loopholes around the ban. Shop owner Saqi Aslam, 35, said the nearest shop to buy alcohol was over a 10-minute walk away from the strip now
Oliver Hasler-Cregg, 24, from Accrington, was sat having a drink with his girlfriend along the beachfront. Read More Late-night drinking and eating could be SCRAPPED in Spain as nation looks to bring in earlier closing times for bars and restaurants, to the dismay of British tourists Becky, who was on holiday with husband Craig, added: 'I think it will stop people coming back if that's what they are coming for . They will just go somewhere else like Bulgaria.'
The latest crackdown adds to the 2020 law which banned happy hours, pub crawls and the sale of alcohol in shops between 9.30pm and 8am - a rule that local businesses have criticised.
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